Back in the day, I used to publish fiction! Including this piece of micro-fiction titled “Xanhaar” — which I guess has more or less always been kicking around at the back of my brain, because I just did these two portraits. I like to think of them as the anniversary […]
I just finished work on a pretty large-scale piece, and actually managed to get it documented before it sold and flew out of my life. It’s on its way to its forever home now, but I thought I’d share the details here. I’m proud of it and think it is […]
COLUMBUS, OH — The Yoruba philosophy of ase or ashe (fromàṣẹ) speaks to a way of life with specific spiritual and social constructs, but also has a particular influence on Yoruba artmaking. Aside from the precise rituals associated with deities, there is a general notion of piece-work — countless individual […]
In terms of the fine art world, one of the first major hurdles for quilters was to be seen as artists, rather than (or at least in addition to) craftspeople. Now fiber art has come a long way from fringe practice to becoming part of the natural weft of the […]
Do you love to see me talk out my face about my art? YOU’RE IN LUCK!! Debuting to day, a follow up to my Spring House Call with Amanda Krugliak, brialliant person and Director of the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery, wherein we discuss my show, Results […]
Folks, I am wildly proud to be able to finally debut the virtual gallery for my show, Results or Roses, at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery. To get to work with Amanda Krugliak, whose work as a curator I have been in awe of for years, […]
DEARBORN, Michigan — Yemeni-American artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz has been playing with the intimacy of bedroom installations for some time now. soft powers, her first solo museum exhibition, at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn — a part of the Detroit metropolitan area that is home to the largest […]
I am curious today about the continuum of experiences artists have with their objects—if objects are what you make. I am always prone to hyper-fiddly types of making processes, given any amount of time, space, and materials—which, for the first time in my life, I have in simultaneous abundance #blessed—and […]
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — It is safe to say that the United States is in the midst of a deep crisis of identity, fueled by nationalism, fear-mongering across the political spectrum, and denial about the legacy of migration. Worlds Otherwise Hidden at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City […]